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Both universities to set up a formal institutional cooperation programme for research in the field of crop physiology. The MoU will enable LPU students to get summer internships at Banaras Hindu University. LPU students can also get access to BHU’s labs and research facilities. BHU students will have access to research facilities at LPU. Both the universities will collaborate to jointly offer consultancy services at the state, national and international level, in the field of agriculture and allied techniques.

The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Monday termed the University Grants Commission's idea to drop Muslim from its name as "preposterous". The entire controversy was sparked in October last year when the government formed a panel to probe the alleged irregularities in 10 central universities and the recommendation to change the name was made in the audit report.

A UGC panel has recommended that words such as ‘Hindu’ and ‘Muslim’ in names of universities--Banaras Hindu University and Aligarh Muslim University--do not reflect their secular character and should be dropped.